St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-04-07
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Best is Cheapest.
PhiI1deIalhiI REGARD


before heard of parties asking fol
bread and getting Stone.
Strictly to Business.
Manchester Union.
The lull in the strike business is a
gratifying fact. Just now there is less
of this indulgence than there has been
before for months. 1t is to be hoped
that this dangerous engine will not be
steamed up when spring business fair
ly begins. This is the spring when nc
disturbing congress is in session, and
the country wants to attend as strictly
as possible to commerce and industry
The Death of the Deadhead.
st. Louis Globe Democrat
So he paid the fare r. and
went.-JOnah |, 3.
This is exactly what the professional
deadhead will have to do on and after
Friday in next week. At any rate, il
he attempts the latter before attending
to the former, he will suffer the fate
which befell Jonah, in spite of his fore
thought, and it will be said of him
''They took him up and cast him forth. u
Deadhead Developments.
~ T. Mail and Express
Queer things seem to result from the
operation of the Interstate commerce
law. Manager Duff, for instance, has
cancelled all his travelling engage
ments Gas a result of the workings of
the law" and numerous other cOmpa-
MES will do the same. Did the theat-
rical companies all travel us deadheadsq
And were all the railroad men of the
United States deadheads at the thea
tire? Evidently we are coming upon
some unimagined depths of the great
deadhead system.
The Poor Mans Chance.
Springfield Republican.
just outside of Vermont village up
on the hillside lives, if he is still living,
an elderly farmer of quiet life and
moderate fortune accumulated by hard
toll. On Sundays he is the orthodox
deacon, and has raised sons and daugh-
ters and looked after their education
in the village. The oldest son is now
president of one of the Pacific railroads
comprising about 1000 miles of road
and has climbed to the place by his
own eXertiOns. Yet we hear that the
poor man has no chance in this country
Holy Writ for the Commissioners.
Philadelphia Times
Thou shalt not pass. Numbers 20, I9.
3, %.
The wicked shall no more pass. Ma
hum I, Is.
None shall ever pass. Isaiah "a, 10.
This generation shall not pass. Mark
l3, 30.
Tho they roar they cannot pass. Jer.
5, %.
So he paid his fare and went. Jonah
l, 3.
Two Years too Late.
Rutland Herald.
One of the curiosities of politics is
that after n debate among the students
of Harvard university majority of
those present, (Only "a small majority
and only small part of the whole
number of students,) has voted i'm fa-
vOr of Mr.. Blaine for president. Since
this vote is more than two years too
late, we are afraid it will hardly re-
deem the political lights of that quar-
ter from the cloud that was cast over
them when Senator HOar spoke of
"the gentle hermits of Cambridge"
John Godfrey SAKE.
Rutland Herald
For many years he occupied field
peculiarly his own. He was not an
imitatOr, but he was the nearest ap-
prOach to Thomas Hood of any Ameri-
can poet. None of the wits who have
followed him have equalled him. He
was not a dialectician as most of them
are, and he did not depend upon the
discovery of some new type of man
kind, or some new mine of life, as some
of them have, to give his powers of de-
scription and his fancy rein. But he
took human nature as he found it in
and made its commonplace appear in
the dress of playful genius.
Genuine Offensive Partisans.
Springfield Republican.
So Messrs. Atkins and Smalley, both
federal officials, are at Washington to
secure the removal of District AttOr-
ney Haskins, basing their demand on
offensive craftsmanship. Here is "a very
pretty little farce for you A disinter-
ested outsider seeing these two Office
holders in their great role of patronage |
might ask where one could |
OOk for better example of offensive |
than they afford9 The
Intensity of these Vermont bosses
blinds them to the humor of their posi-
ion. The measure of their service
should he bounded by the duties of
'he offices they hold, and in flying out
'lde they arc nothing if not "Offen-
,ive."